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How does that make for a reliable exam? In the real world you use the internet all the time. The exam should be about your skills, and using information sources
by oneplane 10y ago
How does that make for a reliable exam? In the real world you use the internet all the time. The exam should be about your skills, and using information sources like the internet should be one of them. It's not like you can 'download' a perfect answer to a programming exam online, and if you can, then you deserve a medal because you'll be able to build applications faster than everyone else.
- cm2187 10y agoFor mere facts, I could kind of agree, though it is important to learn certain things, like certain historical dates, which you could perfectly google quickly, but not having them in mind means you can't follow a live discussion on the topic. But in disciplines like math or physics, it's about understanding what you are doing. Googlying-copy-pasting without understanding the solution of an exercise defeats its purpose. And it's not because you can google-translate a piece of text that you can speak that language. I am all for modernising education but I am kind of appalled by the culture of google-copy-paste that I have seen 20-something doing when they are confronted to a problem, instead of trying to understand it and having a "what would make sense?" approach.
- s73ver 10y agoIt's the same way we've done exams for the last 100 or so years.
- quickben 10y agoFor job safety, if your job has answers online, you probably want to specialize to move out of that.
- rahoulb 10y agoAs a Ruby developer who has been running my own development business for 10 years and still has to look up how to use Ruby's CSV class every time I use it - I doubt that online answers are going to be what puts me out of business.
- quickben 10y agoIf you have your own business, I can see that. But as I usually work for somebody else, the risk of being replaced is more present.